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Kayaking the Rockfish river in Nelson County. The Rockfish River is a 28.7-mile-long (46.2 km) [ 1 ] tributary of the James River in central Virginia in the United States . Via the James River, it is part of the watershed of the Chesapeake Bay .
Nelson-Kennedy Ledges State Park is a 167-acre (68 ha) public recreation area offering trails and picnicking located in Nelson Township, Portage County, Ohio, United States. [3] Within the park are angled rock formations 50 to 60 feet (18 m) high with ground fissures as deep as 60 feet (18 m).
Nelson Lakes National Park is in the South Island of New Zealand, at the northern end of the Southern Alps.It was created in 1956 (one of four created in the 1950s). [1] [2] The park contains beech forests, multiple lakes, snow-covered mountains and valleys created by glaciers during the ice ages.
A kayak is a low-to-the-water, canoe-like boat in which the paddler sits facing forward, legs in front, using a double-bladed paddle to pull front-to-back on one side and then the other in rotation. [1] Most kayaks have closed decks, although sit-on-top and inflatable kayaks are growing in popularity as well. [2]
Fort Nelson (1670–1713), [12] a historic Hudson's Bay Company trading post, was built at the mouth of the Nelson River at Hudson Bay and was a key trading post in the early 18th century. After his pivotal role in establishing the Hudson's Bay Company, Pierre Esprit Radisson , noted French explorer, was chief director of trade at Fort Nelson ...
Originally part of the ancestral territory of the Snohomish people, the Kayak Point area was settled by American loggers from the 1850s to 1890s.After the near-shore timber had been logged away, Seattle real estate developer Clarence Dayton Hillman bought 12,000 acres (4,900 ha) along Port Susan, from Kayak Point to modern-day Warm Beach, from 1907 to 1909.
The house was built by Thomas "Scotch Tom" Nelson around 1730, and later occupied by his grandson, Founding Father Thomas Nelson, Jr. (1738-1789) during the American Revolutionary War. Nelson, Jr., who signed the Declaration of Independence as a delegate to the Second Continental Congress, was a planter, politician, and later governor of Virginia.
Nelson Lagoon is located at (56.000522, -161.203561), [8] located on a narrow sand spit separating the lagoon from the Bering Sea on the northern coast of the Alaska Peninsula According to the U.S. Census Bureau , the CDP has a total area of 196.6 square miles (509 km 2 ), of which, 135.3 square miles (350 km 2 ) of it is land and 61.4 square ...